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At the Institute’s core is the Gilder Lehrman Collection, one of the great archives in American history. More than 85,000 items cover five hundred years of American history, from Columbus’s 1493 letter describing the New World through the end of the twentieth century.

Perry's Victory [Battle of Lake Erie, poem illustrated with woodcut]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05511 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Broadside Date: 1813 ca. Pagination: 1 p. 25 x 20.2 cm Order a Copy

Sold by J.G. Hunt "South Side City Wharf." Celebrating Oliver H. Perry's naval victory on Lake Erie, Sept. 10.

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